BE · 2016 · migr_asydcfsta
Asylum negative first-instance decisions
Belgium, 2016
In 2016, Belgium's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 10.9% compared to 2015, reaching 9,960.
Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 412,785.
Belgium ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 33.4% (from 14,950 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.